1. New HostGator Customers

If you have signed up with HostGator very recently, you must have got a Welcome mail from HostGator which contains an IP Address of your hosting server. To access your Shared hosting control panel (cPanel) just browse the following URL in your web browser.

http://YourIPAddress/cpanel

For example, if your host server IP Address mentioned in the welcome mail is 1.2.3.4, then your cPanel login address will be http://1.2.3.4/cpanel

(Just replace 123 with the server number mentioned in your welcome mail)

The username and password to login to your cPanel is mentioned in your welcome mail.

2. Existing HostGator Customers

If you are an existing HostGator customer and you have your domain running on your server already, then you can login to your HostGator control panel using the following URL.

http://YourDomain.com/cpanel

The above method will work only after your DNS servers are updated with your domain registrar. If your DNS servers are still being replicated, you have to use cPanel URLs mentioned in (1)

Please note that even if you have several domains (i.e. addon domains) hosted under one shared hosting account, there’s only one cPanel instance. In other words, http://YourFirstDomain.com/cpanel and http://YourOtherDomain.com/cpanel would point you to the same cPanel. In other words you can log in to your cPanel using any of the domain names that you are hosted on HostGator.

(b) Reseller, SEO, VPS with cPanel and Linux dedicated Plans

For these plans, you get to log into Web Host Manager (WHM) using the following URLs.

http://www.YourDomain.com/whm

or

http://whm.YourDomain.com

If you happen to run out of your bandwidth or you have recently purchased your hosting package, please use the following URL to login to your WHM.

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